The cock-bird brings fine grass seed-stalks off the top of my Tembe.

He takes the end inside the nest and pulls it all in, save the ear.

The hen keeps inside, constantly arranging the grass with all her might, sometimes making the whole nest move by her efforts.

Feathers are laid in after the grass.
_4th April, 1872._--We hear that Dugumbe's men have come to Ujiji with fifty tusks.

He went down Lualaba with three canoes a long way and bought much ivory.